STS 78 - Space Shuttle Columbia

The scheduled 15-day, 21-hour STS-78 Life and Microgravity Spacelab (LMS) mission will help set the stage for the International Space Station by studying the effects of long-duration space flight on human physiology and conducting the type of experiments that would fly on the orbital platform. Columbia will climb to a 173-statute-mile (278-kilometer)-high orbit with a 39-degree inclination to the Earth's equator to allow the seven-member flight crew to maintain the same sleep/wake rhythms they are accustomed to on Earth and to reduce vibrational and directional forces that could affect on-board microgravity experiments. STS-78 (78) Columbia (20) Pad 39-B (37) 78th Shuttle Mission 20th Flight OV-102 KSC Landing (31) Longest Mission to date Launch June 20, 1996 10:49:00.0075 am EDT. Landing KSC July 7, 1996 8:37.30 am EDT. Runway 33. At 7:25 am EDT Please visit my norwegian aircraft list website: www.aircraftregister.net



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